Re: kernel panic about kernel unaligned access

[loody <miloody@gmail.com>]

Hi:
thanks for all your kind help.
2009/10/28 David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>:
> loody wrote:
>>
>> hi
>>
>> 2009/10/28 Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Hi...
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:27 PM, loody <miloody@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all:
>>>> I use kernel 2.6.18 and I get the kernel panic as below:
>>>> Unhandled kernel unaligned access[#1]:
>>>> Cpu 0
>>>> $ 0   : 00000000 11000001 0000040a 8721f0d8
>>>> $ 4   : 874a6c00 80001d18 00000000 00000000
>>>> $ 8   : 00000000 ffffa438 00000000 874c2000
>>>> $12   : 00000000 00000000 00005800 00011000
>>>> $16   : 80001d10 874a6c40 874a6c00 87d7bf00
>>>> $20   : 874a6c78 871a0000 87370000 874a6c80
>>>> $24   : 00000000 2aacc770
>>>> $28   : 87d7a000 87d7be88 ffffa438 8709ed20
>>>> Hi    : 00000000
>>>> Lo    : 00000000
>>>> epc   : 8709e72c sync_sb_inodes+0x9c/0x320     Not tainted
>>>> ra    : 8709ed20 writeback_inodes+0xb4/0x160
>>>
>>> Hmmm, your machine is not x86, is it? So, I guess this panic is caused
>>> by unaligned memory access.
>>
>> Yes, my machine is mips machine.
>> if do_ade in unaligned.c is a trap, where do  we register it?
>> I grep the source code but I only find the definition but cannot get
>> the place where we register the trap.
>
>
> Look in genex.S for lines like:
>
>        BUILD_HANDLER adel ade ade silent               /* #4  */
>        BUILD_HANDLER ades ade ade silent               /* #5  */
>
> And also in traps.c for lines like:
>
>        set_except_vector(4, handle_adel);
>        set_except_vector(5, handle_ades);
Take  "8709ed20 writeback_inodes+0xb4/0x160" for example, what does
0x160, the last hex mean? The value of parameter?
appreciate your help,
miloody